CVE-2011-1577

medium

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the is_gpt_valid function in fs/partitions/efi.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.38 and earlier allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted size of the EFI GUID partition-table header on removable media.

References

http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100145416

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061236.html

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/12/17

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/13/1

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0833.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695976

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8238

http://securitytracker.com/id?1025355

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66773

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-05-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium